How Citizens and Small Business Owners will win:
- Fiber provides for the best customer experience (source: Consumer Reports); increase in home values (www.ftthcouncil.org)
- Cable and Telco's will be forced to compete more on service vs. legacy technology, helping more to use the technology
- Small Businesses will see the removal of left over pricing subsidies from rate payer days
How Communities will win:
- Neighborhoods torn up only once for the upgrade
- Local Bankers, as part of the funding solution, will see an improvement in their balance sheets, and open up lending
- Having an infrastructure that can keep ahead of the bandwidth growth curve
Why all participants win by removing the economic inefficiency of the last mile
How the Municipality or another 3rd party will win:
- Economic development and with the new products that Google has in the pipeline a brighter economic future
- A new income stream to the community
- Fairness doctrine; today's environment promotes discriminatory capital spending
How Cable and Telco Employees, Shareholders will win:
- The expense savings with fiber are well documented in independent research of AT&T and Verizon's strategy (Bernstein, March 2005)
- Wall Street struggles with the risk factor to apply in valuing the stock; this de-risks the stocks, and improves share price
- Growth is a much better employee experience vs. retrenchment
How the FCC and other Regulatory Bodies will win:
- Aligns with the National Broadband Plan; aligns with the pro-competition policy
- Positions Regulators to deal with Access Reform, Carrier of Last Resort, and other legacy regulatory issues that are at a stalemate
- Go Green: Energy efficient US built cars coming to your home vs. trucks outside of your home; Smart Grid leverage opportunities
